Honey Meat Preservation

    5 August 2023

    I love it when reading some old traveller’s or amateur anthropologist’s account I come across a description of a food practice that I haven’t heard of before, one that straddles the margin of the possible, the fanciful, the extreme and the downright gullible, and flips the switch in me from ho-hum/ ho-ho to an intrigued hmmm. It’s the moment I want to run to the kitchen, throw open the cupboards and see if I have the ingredients with which to replicate what I have read, if for no other reason than to put the result before guests who like me want to take the foodways less travelled.

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.